Reed-holder.



G. 0. KNAPP.

REED HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19;,1916.

Pateljlted J une 12, 1917.

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ATTORNEY.

GEORGE O. KNAPP, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

REED -HOLDER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 191i?.

Application led September 19, 1916. Serial-No. 120,919.

T 0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Geenen O. KNArr, a citizen of the United States, anda. resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Reed-Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to holders for reeds such as are used in toyhorns and the like, and the objects of the invention are to provide areed holder which will permanently retain alinement of itself and thereed longitudinally of an inclosing tube orthe like, and thus hold thereed out of engagement with the wall of said inclosing tube or othermember and so it will not be liable to tilt; to this end to provide anextended bearing surface at the exterior of the holder, consid erablylonger than the thickness of metal forming'the holder; to provide simpleand improved means for fixing the reed in the holder; to securesimplicity of construction and operation, and to obtain other advantagesand results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals ofreference indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a toy smoking pipe showing myimproved reed holder in the stem thereof;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the preferred form of reed holder;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same taken on a plane throughthe reed and its tongue;

Figs. 4 and 5 are views corresponding to Figs. 2 and 3 respectively,showing a modi lied construction of reed holder, and

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of a tube in which a reed holder of myinvention is shown mounted so that the whole can be applied as desired.

ln the specific embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3and 6 of said drawings, the reference numeral 1 indicates.

a reed holder of my new construction in its preferred form. This reedholder is cup-like and stamped out of sheet metal,.with a substantiallycylindrical side wall 2 and a bottom closure or end wall 3. A portion ofsaid bottom'closure 3, and preferably a semicircular portion at one sideof a chord or a diameter, as shown, is bent at said chord or diameterinwardly of the cup, as at t, forming a partition in the cup-likechamber of the holder extending in the same direction and to about thesame distance as the side wall 2 and thus being substantiallyperpendicular to the end wall 3. Obviously in bending in the partition5, the saine leaves a correspondingly shaped opening (3 in the bottom 3,and with the partition in its preferred forni as stated, said openinghas a straight edge adjacent the partition and a semi-circular edge atthe edge of the cup, preferably coinciding with the inner surface of theside wall 2, but obviously the partition and opening could be otherwiseshaped or placed if found more desi 'able lnto this opening is forcedthe reed, the body 7 of said reed being of the usual hollowedconstruction semi-circular in crosssection and the tongue S fittingtlatwise aga-inst its side edges. It will be understood that at thelarger end of the reed, it and the tongue wedge tightly in the openingG, the rounded exterior of the reed body lying against the wall 2 of theholder and the tongue lying flatwise against the partition 5. The holderis made in such proportion that when the reed body and tongue are forcedinto its opening G until the end of the reed body is flush with ltheopen end of the holder, the reed body and tongue project a suitabledistance from the other or closed end of the holder'. Preferably thetongue 8 is longer thanthe reed body, so that .it projects beyond theIpartition 5 and its end 9 can be doubled or bent back into the holderagainst the opposite side of said partition, as clearly shown in Fig. 8.

- It will be noted that in my improved con struction of reed holder, theparts may all be made of thin sheet metal, which can be procured atsmall cost, and are all readily stamped out by aplrnopriate dies withgreat facility and easily assembled without any rivets or soldering orexpensive and tedious operations. At the same time, a reed holder isprovided in which the long outer bearing surface formed by itscylindrical side wall 2 will engage within a tube or tubular member andhold the reed in longitudinal position in said tube and member so thatit cannot engage the inner walls of the tube or member and its operationbe interfered with. For purposes of illustration, the reed holder isshown mounted, in Fig. 1, within the tubular member or stem 10 of a toysmoking pipe 11, but obviously it is not intended to restrict the use ofthe reed holder to any article, but

to use it in as many different places as possible. For some uses, thereed holder is pushed tight into a short piece oli tube l2, as in Fig.(3, which tube can afterward be inserted wherever desired, and it willbe readily appreciated that many other conditions exist where inyimproved reed holder can be used, without specilically enumerating orillustrating them.

Furthermore, it is deemed within the scope of the invention to insertthe reed body and vilfirating tongue troni either end oit the holder,and although as shown in the pre- Yterred construction the reed body andtongue projeet :troni the closed end oli the holder, they lnight projectiliroin the open end it desired. As illustrating such an arrangement,Figs. 4l and 5 show a reed holder 13 with a closed end lll from which isbent inward a partition l5 leaving a substantially semicireular openinglli in the said end lst, just as has been described. A reed body 17 andtongue 18 are then inserted so as to projeet from the open end ot theholder, the rounded side ot the reed. body lying against the inner walloi: the holder and the tongue between its lateral edges and thepartition 15 as in the preferred construction. rFhe end 19 of the tongueprojects troni the closed end ot' the holder, however, in thisconstruction, and is bent over flat upon the portion of said. end Llwhich has not been bent in to form the partition l5.

Obviously other detail inodilieations and changes may be inade ininamiiiaeturing my improved reed holder without departing from thespirit and scope of the invention, and I do not wish to be understood aslimiting myself except as required by the follow# ing claims whenconstrued in the light oit the prior art.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

l. A reed holder comprising a cup-shaped portion with a partition bentinwardly from its closed end and forming an openingI which extends froma chordal line to the side wall.

2. A reed holder comprising a cylindrical portion having one end closedand the other open ,and having a partition bent inwardly from its closedend and forming an opening bounded by said partition and the side wallof the cylindrical portion.

3. A reed holder comprising a cup-shaped portion with a partition bentinwardly Jfrom its closed end to lie longitlu'linally of the' holder andforming an opening which extends from a chordal line to the side wall.

l. The combination with a reed holder comprising a cup-like portionhaving` a partition bent inwardly from its closed end and forming anopening bounded by said partition and the side wall, of a reed 'having atrough-like body and ilat tongue fitted in said opening between saidpartition and wall of the holder.

5. rlhe combination with a reed holder comprising a cup-like portionhaving a par tition bent inwardly from its closed end and forming anopening boundedby said partition and the side wall, of a reed having atrough-like body and lat tongue fitted in said opening between saidpartition and "all of the holder with the rounded side of the bodyagainst the side wall of the holder and the tongue against saidpartition.

The combination with a reed holder comprising a cup-like portion havinga partition bent inwardly troni its closed end and. forming an opening'bounded by said partition and the side wall, of a reed having atrough-like body and `flat tongue iitted in said opening between saidpartition and wall of the holder with the rounded side ot the bodyagainst the side wall ot the holder and the tongue against saidpartition, said tongue projecting beyond the body and holder and beingbent over against the holder;

7. The combination with a reed holder comprising` a cup-like portionhaving a partition bent inwardly from its closed end and forming anopening bounded by said partition and the side wall, of a reed having atrough-like body and flat tongue iitted in said opening between saidpartition and wall of the holder with the rounded side of the bodyagainst the side wall of the holder and the tongue against saidpartition, the reed projecting from the closed end of the holder and thetongue extending in the opposite direction beyond the said partition andbent over the end of it against its opposite side.

8. The combination vwith a tube, of a reed holder inside said tubecomprising a cuplike portion having a partition bent inwardly from itsclosed end and forming an opening bounded by said partition and the sidewall, and a reed having a body and tongue fitted in said opening betweensaid partition and wall of the holder.

9. The combination with a tube, of a reetr holder frictionallypositioned in said tube and comprising a cylindrical portion with oneend closed and the other open and har-` GEORGE O. KNAPP.

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